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x86: Enable ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP

With -mmovbe enabled (implicit with -march=atom), this allows the
compiler to use the movbe instruction. This doesn't have a significant
effect on code size (unlike on PowerPC), because the movbe instruction
actually takes as many bytes to encode as a simple mov and a bswap. But
for Atom in particular I believe it should give a performance win over
the mov+bswap alternative. That was kind of why movbe was invented in
the first place, after all...

I've done basic functionality testing with IPv6 and Legacy IP, but no
performance testing. The EFI firmware on my test box unfortunately no
longer starts up.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1355966180.18919.102.camel@shinybook.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
David Woodhouse 12 年之前
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      arch/x86/Kconfig

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arch/x86/Kconfig

@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ config X86
 	select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA if X86_64
 	select CLONE_BACKWARDS if X86_32
 	select GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK
+	select ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
 
 config INSTRUCTION_DECODER
 	def_bool y